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Re: Off topic: New Year's frivolity

** Reply to message from Patricia M Godfrey  on Sun, 2 Jan
2005 18:19:09 -0500

That the "prose" itself is written in what the author
proclaims to be the "meter native" of English, namely
iambic pentameter? S/he's illustrating what she's
saying: that it's a nearly-careless, unconscious,
unwilled, & unintended consequence of the written
language. She commences haltingly, not very "estimably",
finds her "foot"ing, and concludes with "half a dozen"
persuasively poetic five-foot lines.

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Robert Holmgren
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